Swinging hose-reel



(No Model.)

W. E. BOWERS.

SWINGING HOSE REEL.

No. 449,033. Patented Mar. 24, 1891.

me imams Pz'rnns co., Pnocrumo.. wnsumuron, n. c.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

TILLIAM F. BOIVERS, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA.

SWINGING HOSE-REEL.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 449,033, dated March 24, 1891.

Application filed March 27, 1890. Serial No. 345,582. (No model.)

To all whom t may concern.-

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. BOWERS, a citizen of the United States, residing in the city and county of San Francisco, State of California, have invented an Improvement in Swinging Hose-Reels; and I hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same.

My invention relates to that class of hosereels which are secured to the wall and are'so mounted as to swing, suitable water-joints be. ing provided to allow the uninterrupted iiow of the water, no matter to what position the reel may be turned.

My invention consists in the novel constructions hereinafter fully described, and specically. pointed out in the claims.

The object of my invention is to provide a simple and effective hose-reel of this class.

Referring; to the accompanying drawings for a more complete explanation of my invention, Figure l is a side elevation of my hosereel. Fig. 2 is a section of the same, taken on'a plane at right angles to the axis of the reel. Fig. 3 is a section taken in the plane of said axis.

A is the wall to which the reel is to be attached. To this is secured the bearing B, the projecting arms of which receive the bracket head.

C represents the bracket generally, and in the outer end of this is journaled the reel D. The bracket has a hollow head c with end flanges, to which are bolted the cap-plates c. From one of these projects the gudgeon c2, which forms the pivot in one of the bearingarms B. The other pivot is formed by the stationary inlet water-pipe E, as will be presently explained. Vith the head c is formed or connected one of the arms c5 of the bracket. This arm is hollow, as shown in- Fig. 3, and its upper end communicates with the interior of the hollow head c, as shown in said ligure and also in Fig. 2. The other bracket-arm c4 may or may not be integral with the other parts. I have here shown it, Fig. 3, as a separate piece and secured to the head by a screw.

The hub d of the reel is made hollow, Fig. 3, and it is journaled in the bracket-arms by means of a gudgeon d on one side, fitted in the arm c, and a water-pipe F on the other side,

screwed into and communicating with the hollow arm c3 and forming the j oui-nal on which the hub turns. Now it will be seen that the bracket is pivoted in the bearing and the reel is journaled in the bracket. The bracket can therefore swing from side to side to accommodate the direction in which the hose is being pulled off the reel. The water enters through pipe E into hollow head c, thence through hollow arm c.3 into hub cl, and from said hub it enters the hose, as will be presently described.

In order to make the several joints watertight, I vemploy a construction substantially similar to that shown by and secured to me in Letters Patent of the United States No. 421,657, dated February 18, 1890, and to which reference may be made for a better understanding, if found necessary, though I have herein illustrated and will described it sufficiently. There are two of these joints in myQ reel, one in the bracket-head and one in the reel-hub. The one in the head is shown plainly in Fig. 2. As before stated, the water-pipe E forms the pivotal connection on one side of the brackethead. The latter turns on the pipe, which is a stationary one, passing through the bearing-arm and entering the hollow head. This pipe is connected with the water-supply pipe. The interior of the hollow head at that end is double shouldered, and against the first shoulder bears a collar e, fixed to pipe E, and against the second shoulder bears a washer e of larger diameter than the collar and backed by a second collar c2 on the pipe. This forms the tight joint. In my former patent I showed a collar on the pipe outside the hollow cylinder to prevent its movement in that direction. In the present construction this outer collar is dispensed with, and insteadv I extend pipe E into the hollow head far enough to have its inner end abut against the opposite end ofl said head, so that the pipe is thereby iirmly held. In the pipe E, within the hollow head, I make openings e3, whereby the water can pass into the head.

The joint of the reel-hub is identical with that shown in my former patent, and consists, as shown in Fig. 3, of the stationary pipe F, through which the water passes from the hollow bracket-arm c3 into the reel-hub,

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the inner collars f and f2 and intervening washerf, and the outer collar f3.

The hub Z of the reel has formed or east with it the projecting outlet portion d2, Figs. l and 2, the end of which is adapted to re ceive the hose-coupling. Thus the water is supplied to the hose.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

l. In a swinging hose-reel, the fixed bearing B, in combination with the reel-carrying bracket and the pivotal connection between them, consisting of the hollow head of the bracket, the gudgeon on one end j ournaled in one end of the bearing, the fixed waterpipe fitted in the other end of the bearin g and extending into and forming the journal for the other end of the bracket-hcad and on which said head turns, and the collars and intervening washer on said pipe within the brackethead, substantially as herein described.

2. The swinging hollow head c, in combination with the iixed water-pipe extending into one end of said head and having its end abutting against the other end of the head, said pipe being provided with openings within said head, and the collars and intervening washer on said pipe within the hollow head and bearing against its first end, substantially as herein described.

3. In a swinging hose-reel, the pivotallyconnected bracket having a hollow head and hollow arm, in combination with the reel having a hollow hub and the joint between the bracket and reel, consisting of the fixed pipe F, connected with the hollow arin and extending into and forming the bearin g for the reel-hub, and the collars and washer on said pipe and within the reel-hub, substantially as herein described.`

et. In a swinging hoserecl, the pivotallyconnected bracket having a hollow head and arms, one of which is hollow and communicates with the head, in combination with the reel having a hollow hub and the joint between the bracket and reel, consisting of the gudgeon on one end of the reel-hub, j ournaled in one arm of the bracket, the fixed pipe F, connected and communicating with the hollow arm of the bracket and passing into the other end of the hollow hub, forming the bearing on which said hub turns, and the collars and washer on the pipe and within the hub, substantially as herein described.

5. In a swinging hose-reel, the fixed bearing B, the bracket having a hollow head and hollowarm, and the rcel havinga hollow hub, in combination with the joint between the bearing and bracket, consisting of the fixed wa ter-pipe on which the bracket-head is journaled and the collars and washer on said pipe within the head, and the joint between the bracket and reel, consisting of the fixed pipe F, carried by the hollow arm of the bracket and on which the reel-hub is journaled, and the collars and washer on said pipe within the reel-hub, substantially as herein described.

In witness whereof I have hereunto set my hand.

WILLIAM F. BOWERS.

Witnesses:

S. Il. NoUnsn, Il. C. LEE. 

